Preface
In the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", we can often see a scene of a duel between the generals of the two armies before the battle.
If the generals of their own side defeat the generals of the enemy, then the morale of their side will naturally rise, and the morale of their side will naturally be low, and vice versa.
However, although the battle between the generals was crucial, the final victory between the two armies was determined by the commanders of the two armies.
It is a blessing for a unit to have an experienced and witty general who can make the most accurate judgment on the war situation, and there are many such talents in the Three Kingdoms.
1. The three generals of Wei
First of all, let's start with the most powerful Wei State, the strength of Wei State is the strongest among the three countries, and the talent who commands troops in Wei State is also the most.
First of all, the people of Cao Cao's own family, such as Cao Ren and Cao Ren, and Cao Cao's younger brother Cao Hong, and even Cao Cao's next generation are also talented, such as Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen, their ability to command troops is not bad, and they can even be called outstanding.
However, among them, it is naturally the eldest Cao Ren, who is the brother of Cao Cao's clan and one of the first nine generals to follow Cao Cao.
Cao Ren's ability is very strong, which is also related to the fact that he joined the battlefield early, he once fought with Yuan Shu, Lu Bu and Liu Bei, and even often won with his command ability.
He also had a very strong insight into the battlefield, and once saw through Yuan Shao's idea of sneaking up on Cao's army's grain route in the Battle of Guandu, but instead waited on Yuan Shao's necessary route to Cao's army's grain route, and successfully defeated Yuan Shao's sneak attack troops.
After stopping Yuan Shao's sneak attack, Cao Ren also "paid tribute" to Yuan Shao and turned around to attack Yuan Shao's grain convoy, which made Yuan Shao finally lose in this battle due to insufficient logistics supply.
In addition to the battle of Guandu, when Guan Yu launched an attack on Fancheng, there were only 5,000 soldiers in Fancheng, and in the face of Guan Yu's 30,000 soldiers plus the invasion of floods, he directly drowned the war horse and swore to protect Fancheng, and finally because of the sneak attack on Guan Yu's "hometown" by Wu State, they successfully defended Fancheng.
Cao Ren was also promoted because of these battles, and his military prowess began to be known among the Three Kingdoms.
There was also a general in the late Wei period, that is, Deng Ai, whose command ability was also a must, and his most famous battle was the Battle of Mianzhu.
In order to stabilize his position, Sima Zhao decided to launch an attack on Shu, even though Wei had launched several attacks on Shu before, but he did not succeed in destroying Shu, but this time Sima Zhao had to fight for his own status.
They attacked very smoothly at the beginning, not only taking Yang'an Guancheng, but also letting Jiang Wei and them retreat to the Sword Pavilion.
But the Sword Pavilion is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Sima Zhao has no good way to break through the Sword Pavilion, and now there are two situations, one is to withdraw the army, anyway, he has already taken several cities in Shu, and after repairing, Shu is like a fish on a cutting board.
The second is to continue to stay up, but this will cost Wei a lot of grain and grass, Sima Zhao originally wanted to see it and take it, but Deng Ai said that he wanted to take a risk and directly attack the capital of Shu from the flank.
Of course, this plan was opposed, but at Deng Ai's insistence, Sima Zhao finally agreed to his approach, and finally Deng Ai disappeared into the vast mountains with 10,000 elite soldiers.
When they reappeared, they were already very close to the capital of Shu, and after defeating Zhuge Zhan, they also successfully took the capital of Shu, and Liu Chan, the monarch of Shu, surrendered directly, Jiang Wei and they were still fighting wits and courage with the Wei army on the front line, how could they think that their home was stolen.
Deng Ai's on-the-spot flexibility is very strong, and he led 10,000 people but defeated Zhuge Zhan's 30,000 people can also prove that his military command ability is very strong, and he even thought of the idea of stealing his family, which proves his intelligence.
Wei is very numerous, in addition to Deng Ai and Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao is Cao Cao's veteran, began to follow Cao Cao very early, after the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao's son fled to the northern minority Wuheng tribe for refuge.
But Cao Cao didn't want to let him go, except for opening Guan Yuwang several times, he was cutting grass and eradicating everyone else.
But Wuheng is not a small tribe, they have just fought with Yuan Shao's army, and there are other forces in the Central Plains region that are eyeing each other, so there is no time to clean up this Wuheng who has taken in the remnants of the Yuan family.
However, after seven years, Cao Cao finally stabilized the situation in the Central Plains and doubled the strength of the army, finally having the strength to clean up the remnants of the Yuan family.
Cao Cao asked the veteran Zhang Liao to go into battle as a vanguard, and he also went out in person, he wanted Zhang Liao to consume some of Wuheng's troops, but he didn't expect Zhang Liao to directly lead the vanguard army to break through Wuheng.
This also proves how strong Zhang Liao's military command ability is, and even Cao Cao did not see through Zhang Liao's true ability.
Second, the second general of Wu Guo
After talking about the Wei State, it is natural to reach the second strongest Wu State, although the strength of the Wu State is the second strongest, but to be honest, there are no too powerful generals in his country, especially in military command, except for Zhou Yu and Lu Xun, there are few experts.
It was precisely Zhou Yu and Lu Xun who saved the entire Wu State, in the early days, it was Zhou Yu who carried the banner of the intelligence of the entire Wu State, and in the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu showed great courage and commanded the troops to defeat the Cao Wei army.
However, Zhou Yu died unexpectedly due to illness, and after Zhou Yu's death, Lu Xun inherited Zhou Yu's banner from Wu and assumed the intellectual responsibility of Wu Guo.
He commanded the troops to burn the company camp, defeated the army of Shu, and laid the victory of Wu in the Battle of Yiling, but in the end, he was killed by Sun Quan because of his great merit, and then Wu did not have outstanding military strategists.
Third, the second general of Shu
Finally, there is Shu, although Shu is the weakest of the three countries, but there are more talents than Wu, in addition to Zhuge Liang, the think tank, there are five tiger generals to cover Shu.
The head of the five tiger generals is Guan Yu, he is not only strong in force, but also very strong in military command, not to mention the previous battle, even in the battle of Xiangfan, it can be seen that Guan Yu's ability in command is not weaker than other generals.
In the later period of the Shu Kingdom, there was also General Wei Yan to guard it, unlike the Wu State, there was no one who could take out his hand in the later period, Wei Yan was a military general who followed Liu Bei very early, and he was still very important when Liu Bei died, and his ability was naturally not bad, otherwise he would not have been valued by Liu Bei.
But in the end, he was forced to rebel, and was finally beheaded by Ma Dai, a military general of Shu State, and Wei Yan's fate was very embarrassing.
epilogue
There are still many generals in the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, and they are all good at military command, but now they are the best among them.
There are many famous people in the Three Kingdoms, some of them are Huai Cai, and some of them died on the battlefield early, such as Pang Tong, who is known as Wolong and Phoenix Chick with Zhuge Liang, his ability is also very strong, but he was killed by the enemy's arrows and finally died.
The fate of these strategists and generals is very bad, but their abilities are really high, if you have different opinions, you are welcome to discuss in the comment area.